Quotes About Apathy

A large segment of the public willingly resigns itself to political passivity in a world in which it cannot expect to make well-founded judgments.

He knew he should burn up the paper plates and utensils too, and dust the furniture and wash out the sinks and the bathtub and toilet, and change the sheets and pillowcase on his bed; but he didn't feel like it. For he was a man and he was alone and these things had no importance to him.

The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival

Why should he care about the world? The world didn't give a damn about him.

What does it matter what people do? At the end of the day we're all dead.

You were very brave,' Nancy said, with the same encouraging indifference

Edna looked straight before her with a self-absorbed expression upon her face. She felt no interest in anything about her. The street, the children, the fruit vender, the flowers growing there under her eyes, were all part and parcel of an alien world which had suddenly become antagonistic.

She felt no interest in anything about her. The street, the children, the fruit vender, the flowers growing there under her eyes, were all part and parcel of an alien world which had suddenly become antagonistic.

when we were eleven, say, we really weren't interested in each other's poems at all. . . . But we didn't know a thing about poetry. We didn't care about it.

I thought sooner or later someone would start saying it had gone too far, but it just kept on, and no one said anything. I

Oh, for God's sake. Save your piss. Don't save your piss. It's all the same to me.

Elizabeth's true attitude was probably that of someone who hears two drunks fighting in the street at night: it did not matter who won so long as neither tried to get into the house.

cardboard cutout of a husband, a man who cared for her not at all?

Maxon: "To be clear, no one agrees with you."America: "To be clear, I don't care.

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

I care so much about everything that I care about nothing

He receives comfort like cold porridge.

A man whose bloodIs very snow-broth; one who never feelsThe wanton stings and motions of the sense.

And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weedThat rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf.

He was but as the cuckoo is in June,Heard, not regarded.

A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment.

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

Yvan's a very tolerant bloke, which of course, when it comes to relationships, is the worst thing you can be. Yvan's very tolerant because he couldn't care less.